Schlagwort: 1984
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Lynn Walsh: Police-state strategy used against miners
[Militant No. 695, 13th April 1984 p. 7] By Lynn Walsh Up to 8,000 police a day from forty-one out of Britain’s forty-three authorities have been mobilised by the Tory government in the biggest strike-breaking operation since the 1926 general strike. Going far beyond any previous post-war government, Thatcher is deploying the police, para-military fashion,…
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Lynn Walsh: Another hatchet-job on Militant
[Militant 704, 15th June 1984, p. 12] By Lynn Walsh Militant, A new book by Michael Crick of Channel 4 News, will be eagerly seized by Labour’s enemies as ammunition for stepping-up the witch-hunt against the Marxists in the labour movement. Even prior to publication next Monday, excerpts have appeared in the Guardian and The…
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Lynn Walsh: Thatcher at bay
[Militant No. 709, 20th July 1984, p. 6] By Lynn Walsh The miners‘ strike has shattered the illusion of Thatcher’s impregnable majority. Preoccupied with class battle in the coalfields, where they thought they would win a quick and easy victory, the Tories have committed a series of disastrous blunders on other fronts: on Liverpool (forced…
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Lynn Walsh: Qaddafi terror strikes in Britain
[Militant No. 697, 27th April 1984, p. 13] By Lynn Walsh With a violent shock, television pictures of the horrifying shooting in St James’s Square have brought Libya’s political conflicts to the attention of everyone in Britain. The unprovoked shooting of anti-Qaddafi demonstrators from the embassy, and the killing of a policewoman, have aroused horror…
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Lynn Walsh: Six expelled in Blackburn
[Militant No. 682, 13th January 1984, p. 1] “It was an ugly meeting and a very ugly decision!” This was just one of the angry comments of party activists after Monday’s decision by Blackburn Labour Party to expel six Militant supporters. The comrades defended themselves against a barrage of fabricated stories, smears and outright lies…
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Peter Taaffe: Andropov and after …
[Militant International Review, No 25, February 1984, p. 11-19] Just before he died Moscow wags had already passed verdict on Andropov’s brief fifteen months in power. A variation on an old joke read as follows: Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov are travelling on a red train. The train breaks down. “Fix it” orders Stalin. They…
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Bob Labi: Marxism and the Nicaraguan Revolution
[Militant International Review, No 27, September 1984, p. 12-20] Arising out of the Autumn 1983 issue of the Militant International Review, which was dedicated exclusively to the revolutionary process in Latin America, we are pleased to see that there has been quite a lot of discussion among our readers. One of the issues which has…
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Bob Labi: Marxismus und nicaraguanische Revolution
[eigene Übersetzung aus: Militant International Review, Nr. 27, September 1984, S. 12-20] Der Sturz der Somoza-Diktatur 1979 hat zweifellos geholfen, eine neue Welle von revolutionären Kämpfen in ganz Lateinamerika zu entfachen. Der Sieg der Sandinistas entzündete die Idee eines Aufstandskampfes unter den jungen Kämpfer*innen neu, die gegen die Diktaturen und unterdrückerischen Regime von Lateinamerika kämpfen.…
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Peter Taaffe: Andropow und danach …
Kurz bevor er starb hatten Moskauer Witzbolde bereits ein Urteil über Andropows kurze fünfzehnmonatige Regierungszeit gefällt. Eine Variation eines alten Witzes lautete wie folgt: „Stalin, Chruschtschow, Breschnew und Andropow fahren in einem roten Zug. Der Zug hat eine Panne. ,Repariert ihn‘, befiehlt Stalin. Sie reparieren ihn, aber der Zug fährt immer noch nicht. Stalin befiehlt:…